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Definition of Charisma
1. Noun. A personal attractiveness or interestingness that enables you to influence others.
Generic synonyms: Attractiveness, Interest, Interestingness
Derivative terms: Charismatic
Definition of Charisma
1. Noun. Personal charm or magnetism ¹
2. Noun. (Christianity) An extraordinary power granted by the Holy Spirit ¹
3. Noun. The ability to influence without the use of logic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Charisma
1. a special magnetic appeal [n -MAS or -MATA]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Charisma
Literary usage of Charisma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"He has .what political sociologists would call charisma — Malcolm Cowley, The
Literary Situation, 1954 So the word was current in some intellectual circles ..."
2. The Church and the Ministry in the Early Centuries: The Eighteenth Series of by Thomas Martin Lindsay (1903)
"At the same time it is very doubtful if the thought of an official charisma
veritatis is definitely and distinctly before the minds of either Irenaeus or ..."
3. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander (1854)
"... which it ennobled—the natural talent being elevated to a charisma — the result
was, that some members of the community would come to be possessed of the ..."
4. Essays on the Early History of the Church and the Ministry by Henry Barclay Swete (1921)
"On a review of these passages we observe that St Paul uses ' charisma ' of any
... There is a ' charisma ' in virtue of which a man is able to refrain from ..."
5. History of Dogma by Adolf von Harnack, Ebenezer Brown Speirs (1901)
"The idea was that the Elders, ie, the bishops, had received "cum episcopatus
successione certum veritatis charisma," that is, their office conferred on them ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1907)
"The word charisma in this connection is plainly used in a narrow technical
sense, (a) That the thought of the grace of God as being the source from which ..."
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